Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-01-26
RAILROAD BOND PETITION.

! To the Honorable Board of COUNTY Com
niSSiOners Of the County OF Barber, il
tic State Of Kansas:
! The undersigned, being more than two-fifths
OF the resident taxpayers of Lake City town
] ship, of the county of Barber, in the state uf
Kansas, respectfully pray your honorable body
TO submit to the qualified electors of said town
ship, proposition to subscribe TwentyT Two
Thousand Dollars t9 the capital stock of the
| Kansas and Panhandle Railroad Company,
| corporation created ard existing under and by
virtue oI the laws Oh the state OF Kansas, which
proposes TO construct a line of railroad into
and through said township, and that in pay
/ ment for said subscription of said stock. bonds
/ OF said township shall be issued in sums of
One Thousand Dollars each. payable in Thirty
Years from date of issue, with interest paya-
bic semi-annualy, at the rate of per cent. per
annum, on the hrst day of January and the
/ first day of July, of each and every year until
said principal shall become due; and said
/ bonds shall have attached thereto, semi-an-
nual interest coupons; and the said bonds
| (bOth principal and INTEREST," shall be payable
ut the fiscal agency az the state of Kansas. in
/ the city OF New York, in the state of \; W
/ York.
And the conditions on which said subscrip-
J ton To the capital stock shall be made, are
that the said Railroad Company shall construct
and operate and maintain said railroad of
standard gauge, from some point on the noI tn
or east side of said township, and running
/ thence through said township. and have the
/ same in operation on or before the 3lst dnv of
! December, A. d., 1857; and erect and maintain
! depots and stations in said township, us fol-
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| crossing of Main and Seminary Streets, in tie
| town OI Lake City.
And we further pray that you order Special
| Election. to be held in said township. IN pur-
! suance of chapter l07 of the laws OF 1876. and
the acts OF the legislature of the state of Kan
| sas amendatory thereof, to vote upon the
question of subscribing for said stock, a.
aforesaid. And the form of the ballots To be
used at such election, ard fer such PROPOSE
ton be:
For Subscription to Stock of the Kansas
and Panhandle Railroad Company
And those against such proposition to be:
"A gainst Subscription TO Stock of the Kansas
! and Panhandle Railroad Company"
And whereas said Board OF County Commits
s1oners have examined said petition and il hav-
| ing been shown to the satisfaction of said
| Board that the said petition has been signed by
/ more than twO-fifths OF the resident tax-pay-
eIs in said township, and is i'm the form pre-
! scribed by law and is in all respects regular and
| legal, and said Board finds and declares;
Now, therefore, pursuant tn the prayer of said
petition, and the statutes in such case made
and provided, il is hereby ordered by the Board
of County Commissioners of said county, that
! a Special Election be held ut the usual voting
places in said Township, on
WEDNESDAY, THE 25D DAY OF FEBRUA AIRY.
a. D.. 1887, at which said Election the
proposition set forth In tho hCreinbefore
recited petition, which petition. with the
signatures thereto omitted. ia hereby made
a part of this order, shall be submitted 10 the
legally qualified voters of said township. foi
their decision by ballot.
And IL IL further ordered, by said Board OF
County Commissioners. that the Sheriff of said
/ county make due proclamation to the voters OF
said township of the boiding of said Election
mt the time and places aforesaid by publish NJ
the same for thirty days or more next pre
ceding the day of holding said Election in
some newspaper published IN said county. and
having a. general circulation in said townshi
and that in said proclamation said Sheriff set
forth the above and foregoing order and recite
said petition therein.
In witness whereof, we the undersigned
chairman and members of the Board of COun
~ Commissioners, of the County of Barber
state OF Kansas, have hereunto set our bands
County Seat OF said County, this 18th day OF
january, n. ID. 1887.
w. w. Cook, Chairman,
john MCGRATH, Commissioner,
). ID. FLEMING, Commissioners.
As attest, my signature and Seal of said
Barber County, h ereto affixed this 18th day
Of January, A. ID. 1887.
lsEAI1 ROBERT J. TALAFERRo,
county Clerk OF Barber, County, State vi
Now therefore, /, Charles D. Nelson, Sheriff
OF Barber County, Kansas, under and by vir
ture OF the foregoing order of the Board oi
County Commissioners Of said County and the
authority in me vested by law as such Sheriff
do, hereby proclaim and make known. thai
there will be held a Special Election of the
qualified voters of Lake City Township, in said
County. at the usual voting places in said
Township on Wednesday, the 23d day of Feb
ruary, A. ID. 1887, upon the proposition as SET
forth In the said order nf said Board of County
commissioners of said County of Barber Kan.
sas. and i'm the manner and form set forth, a nd
that said Election will be held, the returns
made and the result ascertained in the Same
lions.
Done at my Office IN the City OF Medicine
Lodge, in said County of Barber, this 18th DAY
of january, A. ID. 1857.
CHARLES. d. NELSON.
Sheriff of Barber County, Rams.
by WIN. LINDSEY,
Under Sheriff.